Last Week Was an Amazing One For Track Fans – We Take A Look Back At It

WTW Mo Farah Celebrates Really Early, Edward Cheserek Dominates Virtually, And Molly Huddle’s Medal Chances Go Up While Evan Jager’s Go Down Eammon Coghlan famously celebrated in 1983 more than 100 meters out. Last week, Mo Farah was celebrating from more than 200 meters out.  While Farah was celebrating, foreign-born athletes were sweeping the men’s distance events at NCAAs and the medal odds for Evan Jager were going down and Molly Huddle going up.

Great Journalism From The NY Times

The New York Times Go To The Czech Republic and Catches Up With 800 Meter World Record Holder Jarmila Kratochvilova In the 3,000 word piece, Kratochvilova and her coach maintain she never doped. 
*MB: “Track’s Most Resilient (and Suspect) Record Is in Danger” – NYTimes 

Friday Night In Oregon

Galen Rupp, Jordan Hasay And Cam Levins Entered In The 5,000 At The Stumptown Twilight Andrew Wheating is in the 800. *Meet Schedule *Live Results

Random Links We Enjoyed

• Josh Kerr talks to the Albuquerque Journal about his training in 2016 and 2017 He didn’t race xc in the fall but bumped his mileage up and didn’t race for a month after NCAA indoors.
• Favorites for 2017? Georgia returns everyone on its women’s team that scored at NCAAs except for Kendall Williams (who won the hep)
• Skid Row Marathon – film on homeless in LA who run marathons – is debuting on Saturday LA Film Festival
• Devon Allen doesn’t totally rule out a return to football “Maybe after I have a gold medal and a world record. Maybe then I’ll seriously think about football again.”
• Can a watch really estimate your VO2 Max? Within about 5% apparently.

Sometimes Talent Shines Early

• Nice Dave Hunter profile of Sandi Morris: The View from 5 Meters When she got to Arkansas,coach Compton told her, “‘You can jump about 15 feet your way. Or you could change and jump the world record my way some day.”
• Jason Richardson remembers when he won World Jr gold in both 110h and 400h in 2003

More Pro News

• Yohan Blake Admits That He “Cried A Little Bit” Making His Farewell Video To Usain Bolt Before His Final Race In Jamaica Last Weekend You can watch the video here.
• Kenyan Journalist Justin Lagat Explains Why Every Pro Athlete Should Have Their Own Website For one, athletes who don’t get their own domain name have random companies benefiting from their name. Just check out EliudKipchoge.com.
• Young Pros Take Note: Four Lessons That Can Be Learned From Usain Bolt’s Career “There’s something the training manuals don’t tell an athlete … Pain thresholds, patience and inner strength are things that can’t be found in a magazine. Instead, a sprinter had to learn those alone, through experience.”
• Valerie Adams Is Having A Baby Girl In October

LetsJump.com

• Did You Know Olympic TJ Silver Medalist Will Claye Is A Rapper? Check Out His Music Video Here
  *LRC Archives: Three Time Olympic Medalist Will Claye Starting New Career As A Rapper
• World And Olympic HJ Champ Derek Drouin Talks About The Slump He Faced After Winning Bronze In 2012/2013 Drouin says after medaling at two global championships, he put too much pressure on himself and ended up jumping horribly for over a year until he learned to relax again.
• Greg Rutherford Sidelined With Ankle Ligament Injury Rutherford won’t jump again this month, but is hoping to be back in July.
• Tips For Track And Life From Bulgaria’s Olympic HJ Silver Medalist Mirela Demireva She shares advice she received from her father as she says, “Every dead end has an exit. What he means by this is, it is all about how you handle things that come to you.”
• IAAF Inside Athletics: Ato Boldon Interviews Olympic Pole Vault Champ Thiago Braz

IAAF Profile: Andre De Grasse Wants To Beat Usain Bolt, But Isn’t Getting Ahead Of Himself As He Knows He Isn’t The Best Yet De Grasse has his doubts on whether Bolt will actually skip the 200 as he claims. De Grasse doesn’t believe Bolt won’t run the 200, Justin Gatlin doesn’t think Bolt will actually retire. What is it with top sprinters not believing Bolt?